politicians should be thrown in jail for wasting taxpayer time and money on this kind of utter bullshit www.cnet.com/tech/service...

what's wrong with a vendor giving a customer a bunch of money to buy more stuff from them? that's just clever. if the customer is short on money to buy from you, just give 'em some more. this is good business sense and not fraud

"war on autism" is the colloquial name, the name historians use is "the 2025 autist-pedophile conflict"

improve a company or product slogan by replacing a word with "piss" example: "now you're pissing with power!" (look i've had a LOT of caffeine today)

*me reading about a horrific code exploit* hahaha fucking idiots, omg, how could you be so fucking STUPID *me finding out it's in my code* i wish i was dead, what did i do to deserve this

you might be dumb but are you "tried to save the same image twice and only noticed because of the (1) appended to the filename" dumb?

this is literally the thesis of Graeber's "Debt: The First 5000 Years"

weird kind of respect for the gedit devs for choosing maybe the most unhinged way to format raw html

"We lose elections because of purity tests" no, you lose elections because you live in a country full of violent bigots led by ruthless cutthroats who don't care about anything except their bottom line, and you don't offer a meaningful alternative because your only principle is victory

taught a 4 year old to call Gushers "Gushies" and now his mom's mad at me because he won't stop saying it

ok but i actually do have the poster's madness 👍

i was in the middle of taking a sip while reading this and hurt myself holding back a spit take

lol what was i saying about decentralization again?

the more i think about it, the more any big service on the internet actually *should* have to be broken up into smaller ones, for a variety of reasons: * avoiding excessive market capture/monopolization * limiting ability for any one firm to suppress/control activity * resilience against SPOF

Anyone who is unable to see that trans people are to the current timeline as Jews were to the Third Reich is an unserious person. That goes for all the idiot Democratic triangulators.

you know if you wanna watch the new star wars thing or the new marvel thing you can jus pirate that shit. don’t give disney your money.

there's more than one way to scale! the default under capitalism is to scale vertically (make the one thing bigger) when you could avoid single points of failure and other scale problems by scaling horizontally (make more separate things)

i'll take any Bitcoins y'all have

had to explain to a friend what a "buy-here-pay-here" car dealership is and i realize a lot of people have never had any idea what it's like to be poor you ever cashed your paycheck at the liquor store? yeah......

if we were ruled by people who weren't stupid, evil assholes, they would see young people losing faith in capitalism and think "oh, we really need to improve capitalism's image!" and idk do some regulation or something instead they are openly scamifying the entire economy right in front of us

lmao someone was fired from their job at a bank in germany for expressing his condolences for Charlie Kirk. Based

National Evil Index report canceled on account of passing the Make America More Evil Act

i will never forgive Trump voters and i will never forgive the "you didn't vote for Kamala? enjoy the camps then!" crowd either

if there *are* future historians and future classrooms, holy shit, those kids are in for some truly unhinged video clips of what was going on in American political culture in the mid 2020s they probably won't even believe it was real

Trump basically reframed American exceptionalism as "what if we just killed literally anyone we don't consider 'American' for fun, all the time? would that be ok?" and everybody got on board

i'm glad i didn't watch any of it. what little bit i've seen short clips/images of made it look like a remake of Triumph of the Will

this is something that we knew for like two decades, similarly with neural networks and AI in general, but silicon valley venture technocapitalists are allergic to listening to anyone with actual scientific proficiency and academic cred, so they're now pretending this is a new discovery

so when is this dipshit losing his job?

That’s all she wrote, folks! These clowns will now censor TikTok to within an inch of its life, demonetize anyone critical of Trump and zero out accounts even slightly critical of Israel. Might as well change the name now to FoxTok.

swam in a lake in my street clothes today because what the hell, nothing matters

This is what happens when you listen to a very loud minority group and cater to their hateful whims.

this is the kinda thing that needs a highly visible explainer because people do not understand asylum and also reading this is abjectly terrifying

i got dragged to watch boat races and it seems ironic that the WeHaulBoats.com boat broke down

cruelty squad

As it comes out that Senate unanimously voted to approve a holiday for Kirk I want to remind people that there's still at least 1 sitting senator that voted against MLK Jr day when it was proposed in 1983

tech companies have been bending over backwards to lick Trump's asshole and he's rewarding them by yanking and twisting their ballsacks some more. amazing i hate Trump but watching him fuck over people who deserve it is kinda gratifying. too bad he doesn't limit himself to that...

this seems like the kind of thing a court will block in about 5 seconds, but it's still absurd

lmao i wonder whyyyyy

You just can’t post your kids online. Sorry. It doesn’t matter if you only have 50 followers.

i'm tired of people acting like PDFs are deep magic. you're either printing it or filling text into a form! it's not that complicated!

i hope everyone has a good day

Becoming a RETVRN guy but just for shit like this.

haven't said much about the MUCK today because i've been otherwise busy but i'm also working through a refactor i realized each object/command should be able to say what things it does should be announced in chats, in addition to any other events they fire, rather than having the event system know

lmao that was quick

look anything to hurt these big stupid shithead companies is fine by me cancel your D+, cancel your P+, cancel your Netflix, cancel it all

going from Fantasy Life i to Guardians of Azuma is interesting because on paper you can do just about all the same things in both, but each game has a distinct aesthetic and they focus on very different things. like dungeon crawling is really the #1 activity in FLi, more of a side activity in Azuma

it's been a while since a big brand account run by a non-native English speaker said something unintentionally sexual and drove multiple days of riffs about it come on, give us something we need a break

i'm sorry, why do musicians get banned for "dangerous endorsements of violence and hate" but not the President of the United States, who has spent years and years and years (decades, even) advocating and inciting violence?

Just what we need as a society.